How do I restart /shut down my windows computer via command prompt?
Microsoft Windows presents many ways to restart shutdown your computer. One of the shortest ways to restart or shut down a computer from Command prompt.

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Open command prompt window from Windows 10 or 11
- Go to the start or click on the windows icon
- Type cmd (Short name of Command prompt)
- Press enters
From the command prompt windows run commands
- Type shutdown, with the / and specified characters as specified follows
- shutdown /s – for shutting down your computer
- shutdown /r – for restart your computer without delay
- Type shutdown /l – command for logoff the computer/laptop pc
- To know more commands that belong to prefix shutdown type shutdown /?
- At the last after choosing the options any of the above your computer will perform the task accordingly.
How to delay restart/shutdown windows computer via command prompt
- Shutdown /r /t 1000 – (/r – restart, /t time, 1000 is 1000 seconds) means after 1000/60 =16 minutes system get restart
- And for Shutdown /s /t 1000 (means system get shut down after 16 minutes)

How to stop accidentally run command for restart/shutdown a computer?
Shutdown -a (here are the -a means abort the running commands) these commands will stop all the recently run commands by mistaken by you.
Wrap up:
Windows have such many predefined commands which help us to make tasks easier to run. Many times, we want that system needs to shut down after 1 hour. And we don’t want to sit idle in front of pc. What will we do? This article is going to help for such to make your life easy.
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